Articles Posted in the Gadgets Category

  • History of LED calculator watches

    Watchismo, a stupendous vintage watch blog, has a drool-inducing feature on the history of calculator watches. (I would have blogged this post about the amazing, domed Rolex diving watch, but at $250,000 a throw, they’re more heartbreaking than wonderful.)Playboy magazine, June 1975…A gift-giving advertisement with ideas for dads & grads included this guy hidden in [...]

  • Cell Phone Disco – playful experimental installation

    Cell Phone Disco is a playful experimental installation made out of flashing cells. By multiplication of a mobile phone gadget, only slightly altered consumer product, we created a space to experience the invisible body of the mobile phone. Flashing cells basically consist of one or more LEDs, battery and a sensor that detects electromagnetic (EM) [...]

  • iBand – a wearable device for handshake-augmented interpersonal information exchange

    The iBand project aims to leverage the simple gesture of the handshake, coupled with the qualities of jewelry to act as tangible keepsakes and reminders of relationships, to explore potential applications at the intersection of social networking and ubiquitous computing. The prototype is a wearable bracelet, adjustable in design for different kinds of users (male, [...]

  • PIX: Master in Visual Communication

    PIX use small and bright LED matrix(177LEDs) to move pictures, images, texts, and various patterns that are displayed. Intense visual effects related to emotions, opinions and information are fashionably displayed. PIX comming with specially designed download and editing software wich provide every user to produce and share their own animation via mail or mms. It [...]

  • Flashlight Tweezers

    It’s often difficult to find the right level of lighting to tidy up your eyebrows effectively and even if you do have the right light, you need the right tweezers too. Well, how about a really decent pair of tweezers that provide the light you need every time you pluck? Introducing LA-Tweeze, the illuminated tweezers [...]

  • 360° LED Display

    The “360° LED Display” is equipped with thousands of bright LEDs. Each of it spins around a drum to create vivid image in a 360-degree panorama. Using patented technology, the LEDs component counts are reduced to several tenths of that in conventional LED displays. It utilizes fewer LEDs, and consumes less operation power. Maintenance fee [...]